{"id":78,"date":"2019-08-26T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2019-12-18T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:54:01","slug":"steam-enrichment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/steam-enrichment\/","title":{"rendered":"STEAM Enrichment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of you are probably wondering, \u201cWhat exactly is STEAM and what are my kids learning\/doing in that class?\u201d STEAM is an acronym for <strong>S<\/strong>cience-<strong>T<\/strong>echnology-<strong>E<\/strong>ngineering-<strong>A<\/strong>rts-<strong>M<\/strong>athematics. All elementary students come to my class for 45 minutes, once a week, to enrich their understanding and experience in these fields. While I do follow the Michigan Science Standards, I also have some wiggle room to veer off of that path and expose the students to content and experiences they wouldn\u2019t normal have the opportunity to learn, such as computer coding, basic robotics, gardening, and social science activities.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kindergarten Websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-green-cyan-background-color\">Snowman Game: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/snowman\">https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/snowman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-green-cyan-background-color\">Counting Fish Game: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/counting_fish\">https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/counting_fish<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-green-cyan-background-color\">Alphabet Match Game:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/alphabet_bubble_letter_match\">https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/games\/alphabet_bubble_letter_match<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Typing Websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.typing.com\/\">Typing.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcya.com\/\">ABCya.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starfall.com\/h\/\">Starfall.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.typinggames.zone\/\">TypingGames<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#5600a3\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color\">Fair Use Images:<br><br>Pixabay: Professional images with no copyrights<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/<\/a><br><br>Pics4Learning: More free photos with no copyrights<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pics4learning.com\/\">http:\/\/www.pics4learning.com\/<\/a> <br><br>DigiMixer: Add on for Chrome to gain access to copyright free music and sound effects<br><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/digimixer\/\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/digimixer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you are probably wondering, \u201cWhat exactly is STEAM and what are my kids learning\/doing in that class?\u201d STEAM is an acronym for Science-Technology-Engineering-Arts-Mathematics. All elementary students come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrskesselsclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}